Metal barrel.



R. H. HACKNEY.

METAL BARREL'. APPLICATION men use. 5. 1913.

Patented Apr. 11,1916.

verob'on' W attorne Wit 71, 68836! fro UNITED sTArns PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT HaI HACKNEY, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR TO PRESSED STEEL TANK COMPANY, OF WEST ALLIS, WISCONSIN, A CORPORATION OF WISCONSIN.

METAL BARREL.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT H. HACKNEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Metal Bar through the open bung holes; to facilitate completely drawing the contents from the.

barrel; and generally to improve the construction and increase the utility of barrels of this class.

It consists in certain novel features of construction as hereinafter particularly described and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawing like char acters designate the same parts in both fig- 80 ures.

Figure 1 is an axial section on the line 1-1, Fig. 2, of a portion of a metal barrel embodying the invention, the middle portion of the barrel being broken away to 5 show the headson a larger scale in condensed space; and Fig. 2 is a plan view. of

the upper head, or the head having the bung I holes.

The body a of the barrel may be drawn or 40 pressed, as shown in Fig. 1, integrally with one head I), from steel or other metal, or may so far as the present invention is concerned, be otherwise constructed, the head I) being preferably formed with an outwardly projecting rim forming a chime eV at one end of the barrel. The other head d of the barrel, which may be made separate from the body and fitted and secured in the open end thereof, as shown or otherwise, is formed with an outwardly projecting-marginal "orchime e, like or sim- -v ilar to the chime 0, and adjacent to opposite sides of the barrel, with outwardly pressed bosses f and g, of about the same extent outward as the chime 6 with which the cavity of the boss on the lower side of Specification of Letters Patent. P t nte AP 11, 191 Application filed December 5, 1913. Serial .No. 804,793.

. they merge, as shown in both figures of the drawing. In these bosses are formed openings which are preferably provided with metallic bushings k and '2', fitted and secured therein, and projecting outwardly therefrom beyond the rim or chime e, as shown in Fig. 1. The outer ends of the bung holes which are formed in these bu shings are thus carried outwardly beyond the plane of the outer edge or highest part of the chime. The bosses may be formed in either head of the barrel, but are more convemently andpreferably'formed in the head d, which is made separate from and secured in the open end of the body. In the use of 7 barrels of this kind, they are often stood on end out of doors, with the bungs in the upper head, and rain or water is very apt to be caught or held in the depressed central portion of the head surrounded by the chime, so that if the bungs are'removed, the water or other liquid held in the head, will drain into the barrel, cause corrosion, and contaminate its contents, unless great care is exercised, or provision is made in the structure of the barrel to prevent it.

The provision of the barrel head with outwardly. projecting bosses for the bushings in which the bung holes are formed, as herein shown and described, effectively 35 prevents without care or attention water or other liquid caught in the upper head of the barrel, fro-m draining .into it through thebung holes when the bungs are removed. These bosses forming cavities on the inner side of the head also provide for and facilitate completely draining the contents of the barrel therefrom, one of the bung holes serving as a vent to permit air to enter the barrel while the contents is being drawn through the other bung hole, and the outwardly pressed chime e, forming on the inner side of the head a channel which communicates with and drains into the barrel when it is tilted or held with the head of downward for drawing the contents therefrom.

I claim:

1. A metal barrel having a peripheral. chime projecting outwardly beyond the central portion of the adjacent head, which is formed adjacent "to opposite sides of the barrel .with outwardly projecting bosses having bung-holes the outer ends of which I are outside of the plane of the overhanging edge of the chime.

2. A metal barrel having a peripheral chime projecting outwardly beyond the central portion of the adjacent head and forming an internal channel, the head being formed adjacent to opposite sides of the barrel with outwardly projecting bosses having bung holes the outer ends of which are ROBERT H. HACKNEY.

' \Vitnesses:

CHAS. L. Goss, FRED PALM. 

